United States or Bulgaria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


Then passing the rope up and in front of the shoulder, then behind the neck and down in front of the other shoulder, he secured the loose end to the other oar.

Why, Mr. Thomas, where did you get honey?" asked Walter. "Found a bee tree on my way back, and cut it down. I think you will find there is enough of it to double you all up," grinned Lige. "We'll take all chances," advised Ned. "But what's this! It looks like jam." "Jam?" exclaimed Chunky, stretching his neck and eyeing the dish longingly. "Yes; wild plum jam," answered the guide.

She put her arm around his neck and, leaning her head on his shoulder, she murmured: "How nice it is! How delightful it is on the water!" Patissot was reveling in happiness.

He is leaning over her reclining chair, looking down into her velvety eyes and watching the restless sweep of the long bronze lashes. The whole face is electrified with delicious rapture, and she stretches up her arms to clasp him about the neck. "Oh, you thought of me, then!" she cries, with a tremulous joy. "You were planning pleasures for me, and I just laid and slept," remorsefully.

He listened to the agents of the government; and his heart sank within him. In an evening when he had dined and drunk his claret, he feared nothing. He would die like a man, rather than save his neck by an act of baseness.

She liked to run them through her fingers and to see them upon her neck.

The lean-headed, fierce-eyed, trim-feathered bird shot from his perch, and sailed on long wings over the grass to see what was happening. As the swift shadow hovered over the grass-tops, the snake looked up. Well he understood the significance of that sudden shade. Jerking back his fangs with difficulty from the mouse's neck, he started to glide off under the thickest matting of the roots.

"When your wretched, abominable roads, my dear, dry up so that a body can walk without sinking up to their neck in mud " ran Miss Felicia's letter in answer to Ruth's invitation, "I'll come down for the night," and she did, bringing Ruth half of her laces, now that she was determined to throw herself away on "that good-for nothing Yes, Jack, I mean you and nobody else, and you needn't stand there laughing at me, for every word of it's true; for what in the world you two babes in the wood are going to live on no mortal man knows;" Ruth answering with her arm tight around the dear lady's neck, a liberty nobody, not even Peter, ever dared take and a whisper in her ear that Jack was the blessedest ever, and that she loved him so sometimes she was well-nigh distracted a statement which the old lady remarked was literally true.

Matters were becoming desperate, and we gave the horse one more cut and went the last block at a fearful rate, but the butcher was right beside us, so one mosquito bar would have covered us, and we came out neck and neck, the Dutchman a little ahead because his horse was unchecked, and the crowd yelled for the butcher.

This hairy caterpillar, creeping along the hawthorn, which if touched, immediately coils itself in a ring, very recently was thought a charm in distant country places for some diseases of childhood, if hung about the neck. Hedge mustard, yellow and ragged and dusty, stands by the gateway.